Sir Stanley Paul Chambers, (2 April 1904 – 23 December 1981) was a British

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and

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and Chairman of ICI. He was born in London and educated at the

City of London School , established = , closed = , type = Public school Boys' independent day school , president = , head_label = Headmaster , head = Alan Bird , chair_label = Chair of Governors , chair = Ian Seaton , founder = John Carpenter , speciali ...

before going up to study economics at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. After graduating, he entered the

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and in 1934 was appointed Income Tax Advisor to the Government of India. He returned to the UK in 1940 to be Director of Statistics and Intelligence in the

. He was then appointed Secretary and a Commissioner of the Board. One of his major tasks during the war was to devise the new

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(Pay as You Earn) employee taxation system in use in the UK today. After the war he served on the Control Commission for Germany for two and a half years. In 1948, he succeeded Sir William Coates as Financial Director of

Imperial Chemical Industries Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company. It was, for much of its history, the largest manufacturer in Britain. It was formed by the merger of four leading British chemical companies in 1926. Its headquarters were at M ...

(now ICI), one of Britain's largest companies. He became Deputy Chairman in 1952 and was Chairman from 1960 to 1968, the first non-scientist to hold the post. He moved from there to be Chairman of

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. He was

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from 1964 to 1965. The society's Chambers Medal, awarded every three years, is named after him. He was Pro-Chancellor of the

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from 1971 to 1977. He married twice and had two children and a stepchild..

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